Vote tally - A Sword Without a Hilt: A Song of Ice and Fire/D&D 3.5 Crossover
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[X] Decline the letter but thank him for the warning. Ser Brynden is probably someone more set with the 'proper way' of going about things, and you have enough working against you in attempting to do things the 'proper way'. Probably not enough to earn the Blackwood heir's enmity considering all the other things about your rule there is to consider, especially in relation to his own House, but enough to make him hesitate already.
-[X] You will present it in the plainest terms for his benefit. You are already one leg over the finish line here, where before Hoster had nothing to offer but idealism and scant hopes. With the Crown arbitrating the matter in a way that is just and fair, leaving neither side feeling like they were shorted from the more 'material' concerns of the matter, the rest of the feud, fueled by the bitter hatred of one old man from the past, can finally be laid to rest.
-[X] You have your arguments readied for how both sides might benefit already. You have your own convictions for why peace should be kept, and cogently point out that no one is going to have much time to try killing each other anyway given the pace with which you move in any conquest you've undertaken thus far, you need only look to Essos to see the truth of that.
-[X] If Blackwood and Bracken attempt to settle their feud with any degree of urgency before then, it would be the surest madness of the entire matter despite all evidence that it serves neither House to feed into it further. Hence your efforts to try to get both sides of the dispute looking to the future, secure in the knowledge the past is a matter of history, to be learned from, but only in how to avoid repeating mistakes.
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